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...generations ago there arrived in the U. S. a troupe of Spaniards who toured the land as "The Spanish Students," dressed in their native costume and performing on guitars, mandolins, bandurrias. On their heels followed a band of Italians who also called themselves "The Spanish Students." So intense was their rivalry that, when the two troupes met in Denver, they battled it out with fists. To the musical instrument trade of the U. S. this was a godsend. The mandolin was something new to most people, and in the 1890's, heyday of parlor music, that wiry-sounding fretted...
...mandolin lost popularity during the War. For a time stringed instruments yielded to brass and reed, chiefly the saxophone. Then touring Hawaiians brought in the cheap, easily played ukulele, the steel guitar with its throbbing, swooping tone which home musicians thought glamorous. By 1928 radio had cut into the field, but, with jazz music at a noisy, amorphous stage, the banjo had a vogue of a sort. Currently the trade claims that home instruments are enjoying an upswing from which the guitar is getting the most benefit. The most respectable member of its family, this soft-toned fretted instrument...
After the war it was natural that Nordhoff should return to Boston. He had been a quiet Harvard man who played a guitar and mandolin and read a good deal. James Norman Hall, the lowan, came to Boston with him. Both hated business and post war America, and liked writing and fishing. They therefore settled in Tahiti in 1920, wrote the history of the Lafayette Flying Corps and a novel, Falooms of France...
...concert will include performances by the vocal, banjo, and mandolin, clubs, and the Gold Coast Orchestra, as well as several speciality acts. It will be the first of two successive appearances in as many days for the clubs, which will also entertain in its annual concert at the Milton Club tomorrow evening...
...post of publicity director is to be filled by George H. A. Clowes '37. James A. Ford '37 was chosen as Leader of the Vocal Club. Joseph W. Valentine '38 and Gilbert E. Jones were selected to lead the Mandolin and Banjo Clubs respectively...